In July of 2001, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata ...

Presentation delivered at a day-long symposium "Collaborating to Preserve Our Print Collections" at ALA Annual 2014. Sponsored by Maine Shared Collections and the Center for Research Libraries. Outlining early thoughts of ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library recently participated in two new “Just-in-Time” acquisitions programs, both of which employed Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA). The first study was jointly run ...

First-year undergraduate students frequently encounter navigation problems in locating known items in the library. This study follows students through the library collection after they have a call number in order to uncover ...

For a long time the balance between inter-mediated resource use or searching and independent use of library catalogs and resources has been shifting. Now users do more than ever on their own—sometimes coming to librarians ...

This presentation provides an overview of UIUC's Hub and Spoke Architecture for Repository Interoperability and Preservation which was developed as part of a Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure ...

IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and
Scholarship, online at www.ideals.illinois.edu) is the set of scholarly
communication services and collections that use the institutional repository
(IR) ...

“Agricultural communications” is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the “agriculture” and “communications” literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard ...

The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP), based at the University of Illinois, has made significant contributions to the citizens of Illinois through its work in identifying, cataloguing, microfilming, and digitizing Illinois ...

Hensley, Merinda Kaye(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015)

The recent release of the 2013 Ithaka S+R Library Survey indicates deans/directors highly value library instruction, instructional design, and information literacy services, and will be supporting these efforts in the next ...

This paper analyzes student evaluations of library orientation and information literacy instruction over a ten-year period, 2002 to 2011. The survey respondents were five hundred students who were taking or had just ...

This paper seeks to explore how and via what tools music students are identifying, locating, and accessing music materials – specifically scores and recordings – for use in their music studies. It also aims to examine ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a usability study which inquired into undergraduate student information seeking with Wikipedia on the iPod touch. Students characterize the overall nature of information ...